The front porch evokes cherished memories from across a lifetime for many southerners--recollections of childhood games, courtship, family visits, gossip ...

A winning blend of entertainment and enlightenment, this little book is guaranteed to put your knowledge of North Carolina trivia to the test. The Ultimate ...

In this innovative work of cultural and technological history, Frieda Knobloch describes how agriculture functioned as a colonizing force in the American ...

In August 1821, William Brown, a free man of color and a retired ship's steward, opened a pleasure garden on Manhattan's West Side. It catered to black ...

North Carolina is well known for its fiction writers, but the state is also home to a number of the nation's best poets. In the past few decades, these ...

Since the late nineteenth century, American intellectuals have consistently criticized the mass arts, charging that entertainments ranging from popular ...

The intense urbanization and industrialization of America's largest city from the turn of the twentieth century to World War II was accompanied by profound ...

World War II was a turning point in twentieth-century American history, and its effects on American society have been studied from virtually every conceivable ...

One of the most controversial figures in nineteenth-century American history, Thaddeus Stevens is best remembered for his role as congressional leader ...

Between 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the first time the histories of these black and white ...